Violinist Jamie Jorge

Jaime Jorge, Cuban born concert violinist, has enjoyed a successful performing career since his late teenage years. By the beginning of this century he was performing more than 100 times a year to over a half million people. By the end of the first decade of this century, he had played in more than 35 countries and recorded and released fifteen CDs. Jorge spent the first ten years of his life in Communist Cuba. His mother, an accomplished musician who performed on several instruments and composed music, recognized his talent and started him on violin at age five with noted Cuban violin teacher, Adolfo Guimbarda. He was offered the possibility of study in Moscow with some its greatest musicians if he and his family would renounce their belief in God. They refused. At age ten, Jorge immigrated to the United States with his parents. He resumed study on the violin shortly after their resettlement in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, assisted by Music for Youth, an organization sponsored by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. After MFY helped him obtain a violin and find a teacher, Cyrus Forough, a student of David Oistrakh and Josef Gingold, he was auditioned and placed as concertmaster of the youngest of three youth orchestras run by MFY.